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Constitutive protein-DNA interactions on the abscisic acid-responsive element before and after developmental activation of the rab28 gene

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Transcription of the rab28 gene from maize is induced in late embryo development and in response to abscisic acid. We have studied the regulation of the activity of the rab28 promoter in embryos. Two abscisic acid-responsive elements (ABREs) were necessary for expression in embryos of transgenic Arabidopsis and in transient transformation in maize embryos. In vivo footprinting showed that there was protein binding to the ABREs and to other cis elements in the promoter in young embryos before expression of rab28. This shows that the rab28 promoter is in an open chromatin structure before developmental activation. The ABREs are important for the induction and have protein binding in young embryos. Nuclear proteins extracted from embryos before activation of rab28 bound to the ABREs in band shift assays. A complex with different mobility was formed between nuclear proteins and the ABREs after induction of rab28 suggesting a modification of the ABRE-binding factor or an exchange of proteins. The footprints on the ABREs were unaltered by induction with abscisic acid or during developmental activation of rab28. These results indicate that constitutive binding of transcription factor(s) on the ABRE is central in embryonic regulation of the rab28 gene.

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    Alison Jessop, Victoria Lumbreras & Montserrat Pagès

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Busk, P.K., Pujal, J., Jessop, A. et al. Constitutive protein-DNA interactions on the abscisic acid-responsive element before and after developmental activation of the rab28 gene. Plant Mol Biol 41, 529–536 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006345113637

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